Quotes About Progress

I don't think about stardom anymore. I'm way past that phase.

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.

I try to be very aware of opportunities as they arise. But I don't sit around staring at my navel and thinking about my brand development.

I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.

It's exciting to work with stars, but there is no reason to be nervous because in the initial stages of my career, I have worked with Akshay Kumar, Aishwarya Rai, Salman Khan... I have worked with these stars, so nervousness has gone out my system after that.

We can now have action movies with two stars where one might be African American and one might be Asian American. One of them doesn't have to be white, and the other one doesn't have to be the ethnic sidekick. We're way over that. And I think it's happening in society, too.

In Harvest of Stars, there is this notion, not original with me of course, that it will become possible to download at least the basic aspects of a human personality into a machine program.

We see the people that have got stars in their eyes, but if you've really got what it takes, you can get from, say the beginnings, to the top in about five years.

They did ask me to do 'Dancing With The Stars;' I said I can do one show, but on that show you have to come up with a new number every week, and I told them that I think I'm a little past that stage.

There are just moments when all the stars are aligned for breakthrough products.

Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.

If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research.

Good seasons start with good beginnings.

When you build the house, you don't start with the roof.

It ain't how you start out, it's how you finish.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

Electronics are getting more and more accessible now - you don't have to be an engineer to start building things.

Things start out as hopes and end up as habits.

I have learnt many things, but there's more to learn. Every day is a new start.

Maths is like a ladder - if you miss the first few rungs, you can't jump up, so start with the basics.

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.

The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.

When it's time to let go, I don't look back, and I start another project as soon as possible. One thing I remind myself is that I don't want to Photoshop my past.

I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.